The key phrase in the article is "living with"; it wasn't that many
years past that the phrase was "dying from".
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/15/content_451719.htm
The number of people living with HIV
There are new estimates of the number of Americans with the virus that
causes aids. Government researchers say more than one million were
living with HIV at the end of 2003. Health officials gave a report on
June 13th, at the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta
Georgia.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set a goal in 2001 to
cut the rate of new infections in half. That goal has not been met. But
a CDC official, Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri, said researchers do think
they are making progress. Dr. Carlos del Rio of Emory University in
Atlanta, however, suggested that prevention efforts have failed. He
says there are may be as many as 60,000 new cases per year. In recent
years, the number has been estimated at 40,000. Almost half of those
infected are believed to be men who have sex with other men. And
researchers say almost half are black.
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